Wednesday, September 21, 2016

College Correspondent

Dear Family,

News update: I am still alive. Despite what Mom says, I do call regularly.

Correction to Mom's post, BYU played UCLA and lost this last Saturday. I was on field for the game and got to meet a number of celebrities, both the LDS kind and the not. Apparently I made it onto the ESPN camera a couple of times.

On Tuesday, I worked the devotional by Elder Dallin H Oakes. I didn't have a name tag yet so I copped this snazzy one.

I work the south play clock so I get payed for the best seat in the house, even if I do have to stand. People know me as the corduroy guy because those are the only black pants I have.

(My View)

On Sunday we have a hall meeting where we share our Stud or Dud moment for the week. I'm on a two week win streak for the Stud side that I'd like to see continue. This week my Stud moment was that I met and shook hands with President Uchtdorf, President Worthin, and President Oakes. I also saved President Worthin's wife from getting hit by a golf cart (which earned me a very grandmotherly piece of taffy). As a reward, I get my pick at the King sized candy bars in the creamery.

This is Ammon, he's from Uganda. He approached me on Sunday and asked to take a picture with me. Apparently if I lived in Uganda I would be some sort of fashion celebrity because, in his words, I'm a "classic man."

I've been asked to join three intramural teams so far, all on sports I didn't play: volleyball, soccer, and Ultimate Frisbee. The win/loss ratio isn't quite what I'd like but we're working on that.

I switch roommates on Friday. My new roommate is coincidentally my home teaching companion, Kelechi. His full name is Ochulo Kelchukwu Onyebueze Ochulo and he's from Nigeria.

Classes have been pretty easy so far, I've really enjoyed ballroom dance. That's all for this week.

Where #SuperHeroes Are Found

Where the Boys Go to Play!

BOY Translation

Successful Children

What Mom Believes

"We are created as much from the dust of eternity as we are from the dust of the earth. Every one of us has potential we can scarcely imagine." Joseph B. Wirthlin

“We write to taste life twice once in the moment and retrospect.” Anias Nin

Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

When we are filled with Love, we can make a profound difference. It's what we came to do. Ardeth G. Kapp

Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us, and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers. Dieter F. Utchdorf

I want to be the kind of Mom that would remember to get the broken Wheezy off of the shelf, fix his squeaker, and put him back in the toy box, having hope that my boys will still want to play.

Boy Scouts

11 out of 12 original astronaut corps (89%) who have walked on the moon have been an Eagle Scout